Celeng Berapi
One of those children Ramadhan nights I would come home after break fast at the mosque when I passed by the fenced religious school next to my house there’s sounds in the bushes in the school compound. I dunno what kind of animal is it with the darkness and little lights coming from roadside lamplight but it’s fairly big so I went back to the mosque and tell the syndicate gang that there’s a big wolf, I dunno if it’s wolf, it’s probably just an oversized fox. Or a lost small-sized cow, probably.
We all went to check it out but it’s no longer in the front of the school but at the back and it’s not a wolf neither an oversized fox. It’s a bleeding wild boar, a male one at that. It seemed that it was trapped because of the fences and when I said why he can’t find the open gates they said it’s because he can’t see very well in the dark.
Then of course we won’t just let it be with his business. Pipi would throw some rocks at him and realising there’s other creatures by way of our unsilent visit to see him he decided he might as well charge us to death. So he run just like a cow in one of those matador show in Spain, first hoofs thumping on the ground to show anger and intent, only that the boar’s in Spain he’d be able to get some dusts up, but here it’s tropical Malaysia and there’s only grass all around.
Then he’d run towards us with full speed, with the fence between us and him.
We ran for our lives for a bit before hearing a crashing sound on the fence and realised he couldn’t hit us like this. Wow. We become excited so we threw even more rocks to get him charge at us even more and of course he’d get even madder. Everytime he charged on the iron fence his tusks would collide with the iron and there’d be sparks in the dark. This is grand we said, the boar can produce fire. The boar can probably produce electricity, even. Probably people of the olden times get their fire started this way, trapping a male wild boar surround him with iron and get him mad to charge at the barricade.
Then he’d finally become tired of charging at us because of the fence and he’d go to towards front gate. We all followed him from the outside and we weren’t afraid at all because we know he won’t be able to find the gate. He’d charge on the fence, still.
He did charge on the fence. We all bravely stand on the bridge that led out from the open front gate as we see the boar hopelessly charge on the fence. Of course we still threw him rocks to keep him charging possibly till next morning when we’d report to tok sidang ha ha.
But suddenly he charged directly towards the open front gate and we know it was not a very grand idea to just stand there on the bridge that led out from the open front gate to the main road. Of course we’d scramble in all directions to save ourselves and the poor souls beneath our skins and the boar was actually already out from the school compound.
Because I had my bike with me and at that panic moment the front wheel stuck so I couldn’t cycle myself to safety I decided I might as well haul up my bike with me as I ran in the same direction that Pipi and Airine ran. I didn’t know if it’s a good idea of running with the bike with me rather than just leaving it but all I know is that I need to keep run and run wow when I looked back I saw the boar was running towards me at full speed. I saw clearly that his hump on the back swayed heavily indicating that he’s pretty serious of running towards us three while the other two of us ran towards the other direction, in case I still couldn’t make out his intention.
I kept running with my bike and Pipi and Airine are already far from me and I know this is probably the end of my life, a shameful one, getting in the headline tomorrow, Kid Killed by Boar after Breakfast. But suddenly I heard a crashing sound as if something just fall into the bushes and when I looked back phew that was so close, it had ran into the coconut plantation instead. Good grief.
So the lesson of the story would be no other than if you wanna see some sparks from a male wild boar trapped in a iron-fenced compound, you might as well throw at him rocks just to get him started, in case he hasn’t get himself warmed up yet.
We all went to check it out but it’s no longer in the front of the school but at the back and it’s not a wolf neither an oversized fox. It’s a bleeding wild boar, a male one at that. It seemed that it was trapped because of the fences and when I said why he can’t find the open gates they said it’s because he can’t see very well in the dark.
Then of course we won’t just let it be with his business. Pipi would throw some rocks at him and realising there’s other creatures by way of our unsilent visit to see him he decided he might as well charge us to death. So he run just like a cow in one of those matador show in Spain, first hoofs thumping on the ground to show anger and intent, only that the boar’s in Spain he’d be able to get some dusts up, but here it’s tropical Malaysia and there’s only grass all around.
Then he’d run towards us with full speed, with the fence between us and him.
We ran for our lives for a bit before hearing a crashing sound on the fence and realised he couldn’t hit us like this. Wow. We become excited so we threw even more rocks to get him charge at us even more and of course he’d get even madder. Everytime he charged on the iron fence his tusks would collide with the iron and there’d be sparks in the dark. This is grand we said, the boar can produce fire. The boar can probably produce electricity, even. Probably people of the olden times get their fire started this way, trapping a male wild boar surround him with iron and get him mad to charge at the barricade.
Then he’d finally become tired of charging at us because of the fence and he’d go to towards front gate. We all followed him from the outside and we weren’t afraid at all because we know he won’t be able to find the gate. He’d charge on the fence, still.
He did charge on the fence. We all bravely stand on the bridge that led out from the open front gate as we see the boar hopelessly charge on the fence. Of course we still threw him rocks to keep him charging possibly till next morning when we’d report to tok sidang ha ha.
But suddenly he charged directly towards the open front gate and we know it was not a very grand idea to just stand there on the bridge that led out from the open front gate to the main road. Of course we’d scramble in all directions to save ourselves and the poor souls beneath our skins and the boar was actually already out from the school compound.
Because I had my bike with me and at that panic moment the front wheel stuck so I couldn’t cycle myself to safety I decided I might as well haul up my bike with me as I ran in the same direction that Pipi and Airine ran. I didn’t know if it’s a good idea of running with the bike with me rather than just leaving it but all I know is that I need to keep run and run wow when I looked back I saw the boar was running towards me at full speed. I saw clearly that his hump on the back swayed heavily indicating that he’s pretty serious of running towards us three while the other two of us ran towards the other direction, in case I still couldn’t make out his intention.
I kept running with my bike and Pipi and Airine are already far from me and I know this is probably the end of my life, a shameful one, getting in the headline tomorrow, Kid Killed by Boar after Breakfast. But suddenly I heard a crashing sound as if something just fall into the bushes and when I looked back phew that was so close, it had ran into the coconut plantation instead. Good grief.
So the lesson of the story would be no other than if you wanna see some sparks from a male wild boar trapped in a iron-fenced compound, you might as well throw at him rocks just to get him started, in case he hasn’t get himself warmed up yet.
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